The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-10-22

weeks ago, and had just returned
from his honeymoon to Canada.
We;werc driven to his residence,
where we met his bride but failed
by 10 minutes to meet the groom.
He is doing well in business on
West Lake St, and is highly re-
spected.
The President we did not see,
but we saw many who did, and
nearly all agreed that he looked
like one who represented the cul-
ture Of two nationalities, Poland
China, while Mrs. G. looked too
smart for earth. Cleveland Wis
tied Chicago to see the city where
great men were made, and then
went to Milwaukee, where great
lager is made. lie is travelling
more thau any President we ever
had-bnt he needs to, because he
never travelled before, and had
but a vague idea of the country
over which he was inserutably
called to pose as figure head.
While Cleveland was in Chica-
60 we heard some disloyal utter
ances which grated upon our SEN
ses, and sllenced one whom we
were privileged to read the follow
ing excerpt from an address re-
Gently delivered at Bardstownl
KY, on the occasion of the re-
union of the first Kentucky Con
federate Infantry Brigade, known
as the "Orphan Brigade" The
spirit of the address, read and
penetrated in our best style, made
our blatent friend vince, while it
made Our patriotic blood bound
faster. We hope no reader Of the
LEADER will fail giving it a careful
reading. We accidentally came
across 1t at Socorro, and clipped
it from a fugitive paper :
" 1t is q rare occurrence IN the
history of human affairs tor the
| followers of a lost cause to meet
in annual reunion to celebrate the
glories OF their defeat, and sin
the peans, not of victory, but 0
failure, and to exhibit with par
donable pride, the trophies OF their
disaster g. And so it is, soldiers
of the Orphan Brigade, paradox
ical as 1t may seem, while winning,
you have lost, while losing you
have won. You have lost dlvi-
ded country ! you have won a uni
ted land. You havo lost the in
stitution of slavery! You have won
land too pure and free for a
slave to breathe. You have lost
the bonnie blue flag, dear to your
heart as its own ruddy drops you
have won the star-spangled banner
that indeed and in truth waves
DER the land of the free and the
home Of the brave" You have
won the respect and admiration of
the civilized world for a course
sustained with such indomitable
courage against the most over
whelming odds. On the Bird day
of July, 1868, amidst lurid hell
of smoke and flame, you or yonr
compatriots lost Gettysburg, the
high-water mark of your enter
PRISE on the Bird day of July,
1887, under a sky OF cloudless
splendor, with the on-rolling wave
OF gray meeting the resisting line
of blue in peace, amity, and broth
erly love, you won Gettysburg"
Friday night. we took the cars
for Stirling, Ills, where we estab.
ished a paper on the Fourth Of
July, 1856, (Which Is still running,
I from the mast head of which stan
ddrd the names of Fremont &
Dayton, for President and Vice
: President, when the sound Of the
shots fired at Fort Sumpter fell
upon our ears-where two of om
precious Jewels sleep, and the
homes of many whose doors
were flung wide open at our ap
proach. How, for the few hours
of our stay, we were right royalty
} entertained. In campaigns here
we toek as always anywhere anC